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Mar
18
Breakthrough, a New York-based nonprofit international human rights organization, recently launched their video game, ICED! (I Can End Deportation), that aims to educate people on current immigration policies, and is targeted to a younger demographic.
Breakthrough is not new to the immigration game. Last summer, I wrote about the deportation of Anslem Ifill, an immigrant [...]
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Oct
29
It’s Monday, and that means it’s once again time for the Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Round-Up. This week’s round-up is complied by Vince from Capitol Annex.
Refinish69 from Doing My Part For The Left is outraged with certain politicians in Fort Worth, Texas. Homophobia Rears Its Nasty Head in Fort Worth City Council Race tells who [...]
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Oct
26
On Wednesday the Senate rejected the bill, the DREAM Act (S 2205), that would have provided a pathway to obtain permanent residency to children of undocumented immigrants – on the conditions that they seek a college education or enlist in the military. The legislation would have also made them eligible for federal student-loan and work-study [...]
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Sep
09
Increasing globalization has stimulated an unprecedented flow of immigrants. Integrating immigrants and the subsequent generations into the receiving society is a primary challenge of globalization; failing to do so, however, can have long term social implications.
As I mentioned before, this past Labor Day weekend I attended another demonstration against this country’s use of the [...]
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Sep
06
This past Labor Day, the Sin Fronteras Defense Committee held another protest in front of the Corrections Corporation of America’s Houston Processing Center. Here are some photos from the protest. I will be updating this post with more photos.
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